Soooo...about Aion.

MY buddy is absolutely begging me now for an MMO to look out for. I basically told him look for nothing until TOR or Guild Wars 2... However, he is absolutely sick of the massive amounts of FPS on his Steam account. It's weird because he doesn't really like solo RPG's like Oblivion or Dragon Age, it's either gotta be an fps or mmo.

With all that said, how is Aion now compared to it's release. We played it at release..and...it had SOOO much potential that just got ruined. The grind was ATROCIOUS and PvP was verrry "meh". Even the PvE instances I did up to 33 bored me to tears. Anyone that can comment as to if they have fixed it up a bit? (And for anyone recommending an MMO, I believe we've covered just about all of them lol, WoW, AoC, Aion, Warhammer, Champions Online)

MY buddy is absolutely begging me now for an MMO to look out for. I basically told him look for nothing until TOR or Guild Wars 2... However, he is absolutely sick of the massive amounts of FPS on his Steam account. It's weird because he doesn't really like solo RPG's like Oblivion or Dragon Age, it's either gotta be an fps or mmo.

With all that said, how is Aion now compared to it's release. We played it at release..and...it had SOOO much potential that just got ruined. The grind was ATROCIOUS and PvP was verrry "meh". Even the PvE instances I did up to 33 bored me to tears. Anyone that can comment as to if they have fixed it up a bit? (And for anyone recommending an MMO, I believe we've covered just about all of them lol, WoW, AoC, Aion, Warhammer, Champions Online)

trijity

Hey i couldnt help but read your comment and i was just wondering if you have aion on pc or online/ even if you are a level 33 it dont have to be boring one of my friends decided she would have a big party and everyone came they danced she even went to a wedding it only gets boring if you stick to your quest and miss the greater opitunites of having a wicked time my friend instead of having a battle she had a dance off it was amazing and funny aion is not all game and no fun it all fun and no game but i can see why you've reached lvl 33 all ready.Rose-Do-San

Aion stinks...thats all I can say about my time spent with it.

The best part of the game is the character customization...

Since people are suggesing other games:

I just feel like suggest Pirates of the Burning Sea once again:

Very social and friendly place
Unique ship combat and also some land combat.
Cool trading system
If you're not playing solo things will be even more interesting as you can take on more and harder ships and spice the whole grind up a bit.
The place is also pretty pvp active and very fun and can also be rewarding if you do it right (for example taking down a trader with a ship full of items)!

I reaaaaally think it's worth checking out. And last time I checked Aion they had decreased the experience required for level up but I just couldn't get into it. I came back a few months after release just to find that the lower level areas were completely dead and I found that very lame considering there are a whole bunch of group quests.

Aion stinks...thats all I can say about my time spent with it.

The best part of the game is the character customization...

SRTtoZ

It's boring. Don't bother.

Thanks for the recommendations/responses. I trully don't know much about Eve Online although I told him that it is one of the more popular MMO's. He isn't into the whole space setting though, he likes the more fantasy-esque environments with orcs/swords/shields/ etc. Looks like we are forgetting on Aion. I said 33, but I realized I was actually lvl 38 when I quit, and even if NCsoft gave me triple exp 24/7 I would STILL complain about the grind lol. I remember killing mobs for 2 hours straight for a quarter of a level, it was soooo bad. Pains me to say but I think he is going to look at Allods Online since it looks like a WoW clone, and out of the MMO's we've played, WoW was by far the best.

Thanks for the recommendations/responses. I trully don't know much about Eve Online although I told him that it is one of the more popular MMO's. He isn't into the whole space setting though, he likes the more fantasy-esque environments with orcs/swords/shields/ etc. Looks like we are forgetting on Aion. I said 33, but I realized I was actually lvl 38 when I quit, and even if NCsoft gave me triple exp 24/7 I would STILL complain about the grind lol. I remember killing mobs for 2 hours straight for a quarter of a level, it was soooo bad. Pains me to say but I think he is going to look at Allods Online since it looks like a WoW clone, and out of the MMO's we've played, WoW was by far the best.

trijity

Thanks for the recommendations/responses. I trully don't know much about Eve Online although I told him that it is one of the more popular MMO's. He isn't into the whole space setting though, he likes the more fantasy-esque environments with orcs/swords/shields/ etc. Looks like we are forgetting on Aion. I said 33, but I realized I was actually lvl 38 when I quit, and even if NCsoft gave me triple exp 24/7 I would STILL complain about the grind lol. I remember killing mobs for 2 hours straight for a quarter of a level, it was soooo bad. Pains me to say but I think he is going to look at Allods Online since it looks like a WoW clone, and out of the MMO's we've played, WoW was by far the best.

trijity

Eh.

Aion was a disappointment for me.

Dull... dull... dull quests, and so much grinding that it slowly became a repeat of everything I hate about this cookie cutter MMO design. Terribly uninspiring, made worse by my legion quitting a few weeks after release.

At least AoC had deeper PvP, and games like EVE Online are actually unique.

Tbh the best thing about it was getting the collectors edition Asmodian figurine to put on my windowsill.

Which still looks awesome.

Otherwise EVE Online gets my recommendation. It is a very tough, cut-throat game due to its massive focus on *player interaction in a persistant world* (something that more MMOs should be about than the themepark design template).

The likelyhood of you disliking it is high, otherwise there is always AoC and Warhammer.

I'm playing Aion now and while some of the quests can be a little typical and there is a bit of a grind, after 3 months I am still really enjoying this game. With 1.9 patch coming and maybe other enhancements I look forward to playing this until Guild Wars 2 comes out.

all those screams and eeks everytime i cast spell , those horrible animations .Farkeman

Not that it matters, cause obviously you hate ncsoft or anything remotely related to it.

There is an option to turn off those screams (as you call them)

And horrible animations? really?? You can not like the game thats fine, but the graphics in Aion are amazing. And ok I'm sorry you have a right to your opinion, but still. ;)

Aion felt too generic, cumbersome and unresponsive when i played it. It was literally impossible to get into after having recently quit wow after 5 years.